The cellophane-wrapped basket included a $1,000 spa treatment at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, a Nikon camera ($350) a Waterman fountain pen ($750) and a $42 box of Godiva chocolates.

Academy sources don’t like to talk about what’s inside the baskets — or why they’re given at all.

But public-relations types hope these expensive presents will make Hollywood’s biggest names more familiar with certain luxury products — and therefore more apt to buy them on their own. And it certainly doesn’t hurt a spa’s business when Gwyneth Paltrow gets a seaweed wrap there.